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Too online. Dared to say 'never' w bad results. Attorney and failed political scientist (ABD). My timeline is a doomscroll diary you won't like. Animal rescue & TinyKittens stan; WoT show fan.
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Hahaha, oh come the fuck on. “I’m declaring a holiday, and you can’t have the day off, you get too many days off already”

This is absolutely off the rails batshit lawlessness. Tina Peters was properly tried and convicted, with full due process, for committing election fraud to prove the existence of election fraud.

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“.. This tariff situation is a complete dumpster fire, and we're all getting burned. Here's the situation: Costs are up, and unfortunately, our prices will have to follow suit. .. Honestly, we're just as confused as everyone else.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/05/04/r...

Curious about the tackification of the Oval Office, I skimmed the official White House photo feed. As it turns out, the gold elements in the room were added slowly, not all at once. Photos in my (free to read) newsletter. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

A bit much for the pro-Covid party to demand shared sacrifice. But also, sacrifice for *what?* What’s the payoff? They’re asking you to endure several years of pain for a future in which you and your kids can expect to work 40 years on an assembly line. That’s literally what they’re promising.

And a reminder that this makes this immigrant class of workers deportable.

The new Trump-branded development just announced in Qatar will be developed by Qatari Diar, which is owned by the Qatari government. That seems to violate even Trump's (very weak) second term ethics pledge.

how many times are markets going to fall for this www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

But your million dollar inauguration donor Tim Cook needed tariff relief for Apple?

The WSJ reporters who broke the Tesla CEO board search story, after a day of attacks from Elon Musk and his mom, have locked down their X accounts www.wsj.com/business/aut... @emilyglazer.bsky.social @beckpeterson.bsky.social @danamattioli.bsky.social

another illegal executive order

Kennedy and his worm-driven god-complex: 'medical doctors don't know these super secret, most excellent measles treatments, but I do'

A ship carrying aid to Gaza in a bid to break Israel's blockade has been hit by drones in international waters off Malta, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, the group that organized the mission. https://aje.io/7dkhl0

Increase in productivity since 1979: 86% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

This deserves some good coverage: tariffs giving “cover” for other price hikes that are unrelated to trade.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi claims the Trump administration's work to stop fentanyl has "saved... 258 million lives" -- more than 75 percent of the US population -- in its first 100 days.

Not sure which is worse — that they’re really this stupid, or that they think we are.

People are saying we've never had a depression this great before... Grown men are coming up to me, tears in their eyes... They're saying "Mr. President I never thought we could have a depression this great anymore." But that's what we're doing. We're Making American Depressions Great Again.

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

A Mother and Father Were Deported. What Happened to Their Toddler? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

Neil Gorsuch told some of the most obvious, farcical, easily debunked lies I can remember a justice telling. I promise you could spend an hour trying to guess what he says is a picture of a “sex worker” in a children’s book, and not get anywhere close. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...

EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.

It's not about bringing a viable criminal case. It's about manufacturing a negative image of judges.

New confirmation of a combined database of immigrants. This is such a dangerous road to go down. Dangerous for immigrants, obviously, but perhaps less obvious is how dangerous combining personal data is for all Americans. 🧵

Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet?

Was she MS-13?

Continuing its assault on Social Security, the Trump Admin is preparing to make ~10K SSA staff “Schedule Policy/Career" (was F), eliminating their civil service protections so they can be fired w/o cause. This politicizes nonpartisan jobs & risks abuse of power. 🧵 www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

VanMetter went to the office first thing in the morning and told the security guard, “Hi, I’m dead.” “Another one,” he recalled the guard saying. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

holy hell, what has this country become?

and we won't even see the april trade data until the end of may

Satellite and fiber broadband are not equal, and any policy that treats them as such will widen the very divide policymakers should be trying to bridge, writes Christopher Ali. www.techpolicy.press/when-you-wis...

This should be a huge story

There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.

200 trade deals no one knows about? time.com/7280114/dona...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade.

Gov't-approved discrimination always encourages private discrimination, example 4,072. -->